Estimation of genetic and environmental factors for melanoma onset using population-based family data

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 18, 2006, Pages 3110-3123

  Lindstrom L ^a   Pawitan, Y ^a   Reilly, M ^a   Hemminki, K ^a,b   Lichtenstein, P ^a   Czene, Kamila ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Familial aggregation; GLMM; Hierarchical likelihood; Melanoma; Quantitative genetics

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CANCER GENETICS; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILD; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR FAMILY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RARE DISEASE; STATISTICAL MODEL; SWEDEN; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; CHILD; COCARCINOGENESIS; ENVIRONMENT; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PEDIGREE; SWEDEN;

EID: 33748620698     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2266     Document Type: Article

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